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Neutrophil chemokines secreted by tumor cells mount a lung antimetastatic response during renal cell carcinoma progression
The mechanism by which renal cell carcinoma (RCC) colonizes the lung microenvironment during metastasis remains largely unknown. To investigate this process, we grafted human RCC cells with varying lung metast...
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Quantitative Study of Leydig Cell Populations in Mice Exposed to Low Doses of Cadmium
Leydig cell morphological changes were evaluated using morphometric and stereological methods in male mice exposed to low doses of cadmium. A possible reversibility of the changes after cadmium withdrawal was ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Return Channel in Collective Installations
This paper presents partial results of the technological ACTS project S3M (AC313) which provides technological solutions to offer multimedia applications and interactive digital television services to users li...
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Prevalence of Streptococcus mutans and dental decay in schoolchildren living in Genoa (Italy)
In this study population (105 schoolchildren aged 5.5 – 11.5 yrs), dental decay was detected in 75.2% and S. mutans in 55.2% of the subjects. The presence of S. mutans was assessed - using the selective GSTB medi...
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Transformation as a tool for studying the epidemiology of tet determinants in Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Transformation of pneumococcus was used to detect homology among tetracycline resistance determinants of clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae. A strain of pneumococcus containing a mutated tet determinan...
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Production of serum-opacity factor by Streptococcus pyogenes strains isolated from pharyngitis in children prevalence of ≪rheumatogenic≫ M types among of-negative strains
Two hundred ten S. pyogenes strains isolated in 1979, 1980 and 1984 from children with pharyngitis were here examined for properties which might be relevant to their rheumatogenic potential. Strains were first te...
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Does the occurrence of plasmids inCampylobacter jejuni andCampylobacter coli isolates correlate with antibiotic resistance?